Oscar Stuff
Spirit Awards Announced:
Everything, Everywhere All At Once leads with 8 nominations, followed closely by TAR with 7. Aftersun with 5 and Women Talking with 4. [AwardsDaily]
Avatar The Way of Water Trailer:
The “Reverse of the Spielberg Gaze”: Jordan Peele, Rian Johnson, Tony Kushner and More Talk Shop on THR’s Writers Roundtable [HR]
Trailer for White Noise:
Inside the Disney Board’s Decision to Swap Bobs [HR]
Steven Spielberg to Receive Honorary Golden Bear at Berlinale [HR]
A look inside The Fabelmans:
Movie Stuff
‘My Favorite Year,’ comic salute to TV’s golden age, hits 40 [AP]
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Will Have Six Dominant Art Styles: ‘The Ambition Is To Wow You’ – Exclusive Image [Empire]
‘Martin Scorsese’s lost film’ Goncharov (1973), explained [Polygon]
Other Stuff
‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film. [NYT]
Harrison Ford Will Be De-Aged to Fight Nazis in ‘Indy 5’ [HR]
A real-life food critic reviews on-screen food critics [WP]
Today in Apology Culture
Mark Rylance on Cancel Culture:
“The cancellation culture is too merciless and puritan for me. There should be the option of mediation, the chance for the accused to apologise and to redeem themselves. We cannot, in our human consciousness, decide that someone is past redemption.” Rylance adds: “Eventually, love and forgiveness is the only way through.” [Positive News]
Bob Dylan Didn’t Actually Hand-Sign All Those Copies Of His New Book, Publisher Admits [Rolling Stone]
Brooke Shields opens up about controversial Barbara Walters interview where she asked invasive questions about her body when she was just 15: 'It wasn't right' [Daily Mail]